Oral history interview with Gordon Jacoby, 1996.

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Oral history interview with Gordon Jacoby, 1996.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84185859

Discusses his youth and education; his attraction to geology; his graduate work at Columbia University; his involvement in the Lake Powell Project which led to his study of tree rings to find out about water supply and eventually relating it to climate studies; his return to Lamont and setting up the tree-ring laboratory. Prominently mentioned are Wallace Broecker, Maurice Ewing, Charles Stockton.

Transcript (1 session), 61 p.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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